The Sun is a giant star, with a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers, filled with hot gasses that environmentalists most probably, seeing as they are not caused by capitalism, couldn’t care less about. The sun burns away with a surface…
The history of literature and journalism is full of great authors who have published their works in serialized form in magazines and newspapers. Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, G. K. Chesterton, Itxu Díaz, and Fedor Dostoievski, are just some of the…
As a boat skipper, I hate being told what to do on board. The girls started screaming at me that if I accelerated too fast, our towels would fall into the sea. The guys were howling and beating their chests….
Sports Illustrated unleashed the latest salvo in its crusade against masturbation this week by placing Gayle King in a bathing suit on its cover. Call it penance for when SI allied against the prudes in the war on masturbation by…
Days of sun, days of writing on the beach. Days of getting pissed off with everyday things. Let’s see. Manufacturers enjoy testing our patience. That is the only explanation for how the more slippery the contents of a cosmetic product…
As August comes to an end, many are forced to face the second-worst thing about a vacation: packing for the return trip. The first worst thing is packing for the outbound trip. The suitcase is an odious modern invention. It…
Some people find summer boring. That’s true. Maybe nothing important is happening, the whole country is immersed in a strange calm, and people are more concerned with their tans than with committing major crimes. Can’t stand this boredom anymore? If…
Since Julius Caesar’s time, science has been unsuccessfully investigating why women wearing tiny bikinis need to set up a military tent in the middle of the beach to change out of their bathing suits. Anthropologists, always enthusiastic about people who…
The latest fad is to travel to dangerous destinations. That is, to die. Perhaps there are people who are de facto not so far removed from the postulates of politicians who advocate euthanasia. The trend is not to travel, or…
